By Curtis Honeycutt Is it too early to talk about zombies? Halloween is still about a month away, but Home Depot is selling creepy inflatable
Category: Lifestyle
The words of the future are here
By Curtis Honeycutt After many months of me complaining to Merriam-Webster’s “Contact Us” page, the savvy Merry Webbers have added 370 new words to the
Smells like teen fake news
By Curtis Honeycutt In November 1992, the Seattle grunge music scene was exploding in its popularity. While the angsty grunge fans were rocking in their
Ten items fewer or less? Explaining fewer fervor
By Curtis Honeycutt In a classic episode of “Saturday Night Live,” Christopher Walken confidently declares, “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more
Searching for words between the poles – introducing miranyms
By Curtis Honeycutt My kids still don’t know that Santa can’t live at the North Pole. There’s no land underneath the ice sheets that melt
Optical illusion opposites: exploring the meaning of pseudoantonyms
By Curtis Honeycutt I have a new friend who lived in Kenya for most of his life. He speaks about a dozen languages conversationally. Of
Revisiting the home name game: go Hoosiers!
By Curtis Honeycutt I love being at home. It’s where I sleep. It’s where I write. Home is where I watch Netflix. It’s an amazing
Grammar Guy: The back-word world of semordnilaps
The back-word world of semordnilaps By Curtis Honeycutt We all know examples of palindromes: taco cat, racecar, kayak, Hannah. A palindrome is a word that,
Why the meddling middle letters in ‘ladder’ matter
By Curtis Honeycutt I live in a house built around the year 1890. My neighborhood is called “Old Town,” for obvious reasons. The other day
The latest words from across the pond
By Curtis Honeycutt There’s a good reason I haven’t shared a roundup of new dictionary words in a while – the people over at Merriam-Webster